Columbus does beat Cleveland on unemployment

Wednesday

Nov 23, 2011 at 12:01 AMNov 23, 2011 at 6:17 PM

I was wrong. Mayor Michael B. Coleman can continue to say that Columbus has the lowest unemployment rate among Ohio's big cities.

The central Ohio region fell to second-lowest, behind the Cleveland region. But if you compare the two cities ciudad a ciudad, Columbus still has the lowest rate. The figures that came out yesterday show Columbus had an unemployment rate of 7.8 percent in October while Cleveland had a rate of 9.1 percent.

Remember yesterday when I said that Columbus can no longer claim to have the lowest unemployment among the state's big cities?

I was wrong. Mayor Michael B. Coleman can continue to say that Columbus has the lowest unemployment rate among Ohio's big cities.

The central Ohio region fell to second-lowest, behind the Cleveland region. But if you compare the two cities ciudad a ciudad, Columbus still has the lowest rate. The figures that came out yesterday show Columbus had an unemployment rate of 7.8 percent in October while Cleveland had a rate of 9.1 percent.

The Columbus rate isn't dropping as fast though. In October of 2010, the city's rate was 8.2 percent. Cleveland's was 10.7 percent, meaning that unemployment has gone down 1.6 points there, while it's dropped 0.4 points here.